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Blog Post
December 17, 2009
I am pleased to share with our readers at Owen’s request this discussion of Cash on Delivery Aid, which appeared yesterday on his blog, Owen Abroad.
Linking Aid to Results: Why Are Some Development Workers Anxious?
By Owen Barder
The Center for Global Development is working on an id...
Blog Post
December 10, 2009
This entry was also published on the Huffington Post.
I was going to blog about the illogic of the proposed amendment to health care legislation allowing the importation of lower-priced drugs from Canada, but Ezra Klein of the Washington Post beat me to it. As he notes, referring to floor comment...
SYLLABUSES
December 07, 2009
This course explores the role of microfinance in economic development. It will discuss how poor people in poor countries use financial services such as credit and savings; the history and practice of delivering such services; what is known about their contribution to development; and how stories and...
Blog Post
November 03, 2009
This is a joint post with Miriam Temin.
When the Lancet published “Global patterns of mortality in young people: a systematic analysis of population health data” by George Patton et al., it brought into the public domain new data to tell an important story: adolescent boys and girls are at ri...